Category: Arguments in support of God

An atheist and "street epistemologist" called "@AdamDoesSE" on Twitter contacted me (SJ Thomason) on YouTube and Twitter and asked me to answer the following eleven questions. I contacted my Christian peers and below we have presented our answers. Furthermore, we have created two sets of tough questions that we ask that the atheists and street …

Yesterday I created a survey on Twitter in which I asked respondents to indicate whether they believe in space aliens. Of the 2,357 respondents, 12% were theists who said “yes,” 20% were theists who said “no,” 43% were atheists who said “yes,” and 25% were atheists who said “no.” In other words, 38% of theists …

Two reasons that young earth creationists (YECs) believe the earth is around six thousand years old are their interpretations of the Hebrew word “yom” in the book of Genesis and their computation of the years in the lifetimes of the people listed by Matthew and Luke in Jesus’ genealogies. The present article seeks to refute …

After reading and reflecting upon “The Problem of Evil” by Fyodor Dostoevsky, it struck me that he would devote his full attention to some of the most egregious crimes against humanity by focusing on the brutality of those who have tortured children in front of their mothers for pleasure. One can’t help but plea for …

“Why is it so dark in the atheist closet?” Shannon Q posted a video with this title on YouTube today. Her video can be accessed here: https://youtu.be/EgkXHdp9sKo. She pointed to a Pew Research poll of U.S. respondents that indicated the forty percent held negative views of atheists. Even atheists ranked other atheists as the most …

To persuade people, one should use the tools Aristotle suggested of ethos (establish credibility), pathos (appeal to people’s emotions) and logos (apply logic). I have encountered many atheists who have applied Aristotle’s formulations to construct their “de-conversion” from Christianity stories. This intention of this blog is to deconstruct their stories based on a higher level …

Atheists have often expressed their outrage at what they consider to be acts of “divine genocide” in the Old Testament. Yet when one considers the egregious behavior of the cultures God wanted to be destroyed, it becomes clear that God’s actions were capital punishments instead for abominable sins (Genesis 15:15-16; Deuteronomy 7:2-5). Accordingly, this blog …